Rubin told New York Magazine: "[Chris] said, 'Ice-T has this song, and maybe there's a way to flip it around and do a new version of that.'

"And I told Jay Z the idea and he liked it. The Ice-T song is about 'got 99 problems and a bitch ain't one', and then it's a list of him talking about his girls and what a great pimp he is.

"And our idea was to use that same hook concept, and instead of it being about the girls that are not his problem, instead of being a bragging song, it's more about the problems. Like, this is about the other side of that story."

Rick Rubin was recently honoured with a Lifetime of Harmony award from the David Lynch Foundation.